newsmonger
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of newsmonger
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Tillman is a newsmonger, whose disagreeable imposture does not prevent his comic confrere from getting the real scoop on the squealer mystery.
From Time Magazine Archive
When an old mustached rascal startled a credulous world by asserting that he had discovered the North Pole, Philip Gibbs, then a sharp-witted newsmonger, investigated.
From Time Magazine Archive
The competition is for the poet, the novelist, the newsmonger, or some enfant terrible, whose autograph is rare to excess.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt
"They say the Christ is born," said the newsmonger, plunging into her story.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Lewis Wallace
"As a newsmonger, you say, do you, that minutes are valuable?"
From All-Wool Morrison by Holman Day
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